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When Marvel Meets “Much Ado About Nothing”

A splashy new production of the play may give a sense of where Shakespeare productions are heading.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/when-marvel-meets-much-ado-about-nothing

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:48:56 +0000

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Resisting Trump 2.0 with Brain-Rot Memes

We participate in political memes to express our anxiety that whatever is coming next might be even more chaotic than what is already happening.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/resisting-trump-20-with-brain-rot-memes

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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The Zambian Sensibility of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”

Our art reflects a commitment to the pleasant, a subtlety and delay in how we communicate, and an easygoing acceptance of contradiction.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-zambian-sensibility-of-on-becoming-a-guinea-fowl

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:05:27 +0000

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Why We Can’t Quit Talking About Jesus

Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a reason they won’t stay dead and buried.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/miracles-and-wonder-elaine-pagels-book-review-heretic-catherine-nixey

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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Women Who Made Amanda Seyfried Feel Less Alone

The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress discusses four books that examine some of the struggles that come with being a daughter, wife, and mother.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/women-who-made-amanda-seyfried-feel-less-alone

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0000

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“Airless Spaces” Captures the Nadir of the Second Wave

If Shulamith Firestone’s last work haunts the feminist movement, it may be because it suggests something disturbing about feminism itself.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/airless-spaces-shulamith-firestone-captures-the-nadir-of-the-second-wave

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:51:29 +0000

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The Best Books We’ve Read in 2025 So Far

Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2025

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000

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Briefly Noted Book Reviews

“Seeking Shelter,” “Dust and Light,” “What You Make of Me,” and “Casualties of Truth.”

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/seeking-shelter-dust-and-light-what-you-make-of-me-and-casualties-of-truth

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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The Cinematic Glories of Manoel de Oliveira’s Endless Youth

The Portuguese director, who made twenty-two features after the age of eighty, rejuvenated the art of movies by linking personal experience to the arc of history.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-cinematic-glories-of-manoel-de-oliveiras-endless-youth

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:48:02 +0000

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Disney’s “Snow White” Remake Whistles But Doesn’t Work

Loathed even before its release, the latest live-action version of an animated classic embodies many of the cynical moves of the remake racket.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-current-cinema/disneys-snow-white-remake-whistles-but-doesnt-work

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:43:45 +0000

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The Hitchcockian Wonders of “Misericordia”

Alain Guiraudie’s intimate thriller, about sex and death in a rustic village, bends classic tropes into modern forms.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-hitchcockian-wonders-of-misericordia

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:12:50 +0000

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“Being Maria” Brings Maria Schneider’s Traumatic Career to Light

Jessica Palud’s portrait of the actress, who starred, with Marlon Brando, in “Last Tango in Paris,” centers the abuse that Schneider endured on that shoot, and its lifelong aftereffects.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/being-maria-brings-maria-schneiders-traumatic-career-to-light

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:47:58 +0000

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The Quintessentially American Story of Indian Pizza

In the eighties, a Punjabi immigrant bought an old Italian restaurant in San Francisco. The dish he pioneered became a phenomenon.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/the-quintessentially-american-story-of-indian-pizza

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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Helen, Help Me: Should I Be Cooking with Ostrich Eggs?

Our food critic answers a reader’s question about alternatives to the beleaguered chicken egg.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-food-scene/helen-help-me-should-i-be-cooking-with-ostrich-eggs

Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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Restaurant Review: La Tête d’Or and the Revenge of the American Steak House

The ne plus ultra of expense-account dining is making a comeback, with help from the indefatigable French chef Daniel Boulud.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-food-scene/la-tete-dor-and-the-revenge-of-the-american-steak-house

Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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A Crowning Moment for the New Orleans King Cake

During Carnival, the ingenuity of the city’s bakers is on full display.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/a-crowning-moment-for-the-new-orleans-king-cake

Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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For Elias Williams, the Hip-Hop Beat Machine Carries the Soul of Community

In “Straight Loops, Light & Soul,” a project evoking Roy DeCarava’s Harlem jazz pictures and the music of J Dilla, Williams captures the underground beat-maker scene of New York City.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/for-elias-williams-the-hip-hop-beat-machine-carries-the-soul-of-community

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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A British Detective Comedy About a Reclusive Puzzle-Maker

In “Ludwig,” David Mitchell tries to solve mysteries—and the problem of being a person in the world.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/a-british-detective-comedy-about-a-reclusive-puzzle-maker

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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Mister Lonely, the New TV Hero

Widowers drive the plots of “Paradise,” “Severance,” and “American Primeval,” to poignant effect.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/mister-lonely-the-new-tv-hero

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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The Parental Panic of “Adolescence”

The Netflix series, about a thirteen-year-old killer, attempts to grapple with the crisis facing boys today—but its true sympathies lie with the baffled adults around them.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/the-parental-panic-of-adolescence

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:56:22 +0000

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How “Severance” Makes a Fetish of the Office

In its second season, the show continues to indict the corporate workplace while secretly longing for it.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/how-severance-makes-a-fetish-of-the-office

Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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An Overpriced “Othello” Goes Splat on Broadway

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and “The Trojans,” a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end zone.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/07/othello-theatre-review-broadway

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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“Purpose” on Broadway and “Vanya” Downtown

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/vanya-and-purpose-theatre-review

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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The Strange Experimental-Theatre Experience Giving New Meaning to “Show, Don’t Tell”

The minds behind “You Me Bum Bum Train,” which has sparked a ticket frenzy, discuss re-creating real-life scenarios, crafting a show that gives people “epiphanies,” and why they ask participants to sign an N.D.A.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/drinks-with-the-new-yorker/the-strange-experimental-theatre-experience-giving-new-meaning-to-show-dont-tell

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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Uneven Revivals of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Ghosts”

Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in a heavy-handed production of Tennessee Williams’s masterpiece, and a mismatched cast stumbles around Henrik Ibsen’s haunted classic.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/24/a-streetcar-named-desire-and-ghosts-theatre-review

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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Two Young Pianists Test Their Limits

Yunchan Lim tackles Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Seong-Jin Cho presents a Ravel marathon.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/yunchan-lim-seong-jin-cho-music-review

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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Jeremy Denk’s Musical Account of American Divisions

The award-winning pianist on the relationship between music and politics—and on five books that hold them in tension.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/jeremy-denks-musical-account-of-american-divisions

Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000

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An 1887 Opera by a Black Composer Finally Surfaces

Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/an-1887-opera-by-a-black-composer-finally-surfaces

Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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Before He Formed Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page Played a Prom in Ohio

A new documentary about the band’s early days offers a rich backdrop to an unlikely performance of a star on the rise.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/before-he-formed-led-zeppelin-jimmy-page-played-a-prom-in-ohio

Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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Richard Brody’s New Directors/New Films Picks

Also: The hundred-year-old jazz saxophonist Marshall Allen, Baz Luhrmann’s dramatic new East Village bar, Alice Childress’s “Wine in the Wilderness,” and more.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/goings-on/richard-brodys-new-directors-new-films-picks

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices”

The Trump Administration’s not-so-classified group chat.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-04-07

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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Deadlifting in Your Nineties, in “Strong Grandma”

An elderly powerlifter trains for competition, in Cecilia Brown and Winslow Crane-Murdoch’s short documentary.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/deadlifting-in-your-nineties-in-strong-grandma

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:19:58 +0000

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Sunday in the Amusement Park with Elon

Who knows who you’ll bump into?

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/blitts-kvetchbook/sunday-in-the-amusement-park-with-elon

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:50:55 +0000

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R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Upstairs, Downstairs”

A tale of two schlepps.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-03-31

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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Haley Mlotek’s “No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce,” Reviewed

The battle for custody of a contested institution.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/no-fault-haley-mlotek-book-review

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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Your A.I. Lover Will Change You

A future where many humans are in love with bots may not be far off. Should we regard them as training grounds for healthy relationships or as nihilistic traps?

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/your-ai-lover-will-change-you

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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The Flawed Heart of “Adolescence”

The creators of the British miniseries think of the contemporary English boy as a fragile creature, abandoned by society.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-flawed-heart-of-adolescence

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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What to Watch That Isn’t “The White Lotus”

Also: the audacious Andy Kaufman; Richard Learoyd’s haunting new photography; and the Wooster Group gets wistful.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/goings-on/what-to-watch-that-isnt-the-white-lotus

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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The Resurrection of a Lost Yiddish Novel

At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of modernity.

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/the-resurrection-of-a-lost-yiddish-novel

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

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